Which Virginia Woolf novel follows Clarissa Dalloway through a day of preparations in London?

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Published in 1925, “Mrs Dalloway” follows Clarissa Dalloway as she prepares for a party in London. The novel takes place mainly over a single day and moves among several characters’ thoughts, including those of Septimus Warren Smith, a veteran traumatised by the First World War. Virginia Woolf uses stream of consciousness, memory and shifting perspectives to connect lives that sometimes pass without meeting. Big Ben’s chimes organise external time while the narration explores a much freer inner time, revealing how public routines coexist with private grief, desire and reflection.